The Easiest Way to Clean Copper

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The Easiest Way to Clean Copper

Copper is beautiful when it’s bright and shiny with that glorious pinkish tinge but when it’s dirty and dull it is not such a pretty sight.

I have a copper wash tub that was my Grandma’s. It was used to do laundry for her 8 children. {I am so thankful to have a Maytag!} The tub has been soldered with metal added that was not copper and it has dings, scratches and dents all over it. It’s my idea of beautiful! I have had that washtub for longer than I can remember and I have tried, on several occasions, to clean it and shine it but I always got discouraged. My arm would get tired from all the rubbing and buffing and I never quite finished the job. Then I saw this tip to use ketchup…yep, ketchup to clean copper. I thought what the heck, I’ll give it a try. It was Christmastime (do you see how long it takes me to actually do some of my posts!) and I wanted to use the copper tub to hold one of my Christmas trees but there was no way I was going to use it in its then current state. I brought it from my sunroom into my laundry room and started slathering it with ketchup.

It still looks perfect, Diane. It hasn’t tarnished at all. I have it in the house now so that may be part of the reason it’s holding up. When I had it in the sunroom it was exposed to changes in temperature and more moisture than I have in the house. I never thought of waxing it!!!! That’s a great idea.

Ketchup is the bomb! I love this tip Mary Beth. I bought a set of copper canisters back in the Spring and cleaned them up the same way. It’s pretty amazing how easy and awesome this worked.
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Caught this on Monday Funday. I used ketchup on our copper boilder like yours. Do you have a cover? We were very lucky and ours has one. Anyway I’ve never seen the slather ketchup and let it sit a few hours. No wonder my apply and scrub did such a poor job! Thanks.

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